Title Art from Africa : long steps never broke a back / Pamela McClusky ; with a contribution by Robert Farris Thompson.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	709.67 M128A	Check Shelf

Description	302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Note	Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 7-May 19, 2002.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Preface / Mimi Gardner Gates -- Introduction / Pamela McClusky -- African Art in Motion / Robert Farris Thompson -- Case Histories: Art Steps from Africa to America / Pamela McClusky -- Heroes Go Solitary Walking: Hunters' Shirts -- An Art of Persuasion: Regalia from the Asante Kingdom -- Assembling a Royal Stage: Art from the Kom Kingdom -- The Fetish and the Imagination of Europe: Sacred Medicines of the Kongo -- A Sculpture Hungry for Aggression: Ivwri Figure -- Forest Spirits Far from Home: Dan Masks -- Beauty Stripped of Human Flaws: Sowei Masks -- "God's Medicine" against Witchcraft: Costume for Basinjom -- The Ultimate Spectacle for Powerful Mothers: Gelede Masks -- Riding into the Next Life: A Mercedes-Benz Coffin -- "Negatives That Brathe Like You and Me": Photographs from Bamako -- Collecting Beads and Wishes for the Future: Ornaments for a Maasai Bride -- Sande Society Stories.
Summary	"The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve "case histories" of objects--or clusters of objects-- in the Seatle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art."
Subject	Seattle Art Museum -- Exhibitions.
	Art, African -- Exhibitions.
	Art, Black -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.
	Masks -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.
	Ethnology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Exhibitions.
	Art -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Exhibitions.
	Seattle Art Museum. (OCoLC)fst00510224
	Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
	Art, African. (OCoLC)fst00815861
	Art, Black. (OCoLC)fst00816023
	Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
	Masks. (OCoLC)fst01011082
	Sub-Saharan Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239520
	Washington (State) -- Seattle. (OCoLC)fst01204940
	Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4
	Subsaharisches Afrika (DE-588)4053770-5
	Ausstellung (DE-588)4129601-1
	Afrikansk konst.
	Ausstellung.
	Kunst.
	Schwarzafrika.
Genre/Form	Ausstellung -- Seattle (Wash.) -- 2002.
	Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
	Exhibition catalogs.
	Seattle (Wash., 2002)
Added Author	Thompson, Robert Farris.
	Seattle Art Museum.
ISBN	0691092753 (Princeton Univ. Press ; alk. paper)
	9780691092751 (Princeton Univ. Press ; alk. paper)
	0691092958 (Princeton Univ. Press ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9780691092959 (Princeton Univ. Press ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
	0853318488 (cloth ; Lund Humphries ; alk. paper)
	9780853318484
	0853318484

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